Dear friends, As many of you know, I was a nonprofit consultant and professional speaker before launching 10,000 Beds, but chose to walk away from what was a very fun and even lucrative career when our family was hit again by the disease of addiction several years...

I loved the movie The Green Mile. It wrenched my heart, but I still loved it. The same cannot be said for a recent experience that I will ever remember as The Gray Mile: a long, empty, silent, seems-like-it-goes-forever, gray-painted, gray-floored, gray-door-lined...

So many people have been working in the addiction industry and saving lives for a long time! We’ve only just begun! And with almost $1,000,000 in awarded scholarships, we are just starting. There are so many more lives that can be saved!We hope you will help us...

One of the assumptions about parents is that they have unconditional, limitless love for their children. And in many cases, this is true. HOWEVER, when it comes to addiction, a parent can reach their limit. Does this seem fair? We are all human. Parents are often in...

This is a letter I received exactly one year ago today, following a week of phone and text conversations. We had worked night and day o help this client, and a miracle happened. Here is his story, in his own words – we have not edited the letter at all, except to...

It wasn’t that long ago that a few of us were sitting around a table shaking our heads over the data in front of us. Over 3000 calls for help were being made to a friend’s call center every week, and of those 3000+ addicts, approximately half could not afford...